1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783034703321

Autore

Burton John <1947, >

Titolo

Managing residential care / / John Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-71039-9

1-134-71040-2

1-280-46333-3

0-203-01036-1

9786610463336

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 261 p. : ill

Disciplina

361/.05

Soggetti

Institutional care - Great Britain - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

part Part I Five stories of management -- chapter People and places -- chapter 1 Marcia -- chapter 2 Bob -- chapter 3 Noreen -- chapter 4 Lok -- chapter 5 Janet and Jeeva -- part Part II Thinking about residential care: its context, organisation and management -- chapter 6 The wider picture and the core task -- chapter 7 Becoming a good manager in a hostile environment -- part Part III The practicalities of managing a therapeutic social ecology -- chapter 8 Residents -- chapter 9 Staff -- chapter 10 The building: the therapeutic environment -- chapter 11 Money, budgets and finance -- chapter 12 Putting it all together and making it work: the therapeutic ecology in action -- part Part IV Outside influences -- chapter 13 Feet of clay, seats of power, ivory towers-and egg mayonnaise on the keyboard -- chapter 14 The policy lite -- chapter 15 Inspection and independent outsiders: protecting residents.